CVE-2024-8520 Ultimate Member <= 2.8.6 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Membership Status Change
Attackers can trick administrators into changing user membership statuses via forged requests due to missing nonce validation in the Ultimate Member plugin.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-8520?
CVE-2024-8520 is a medium-severity vulnerability in ultimatemember Ultimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership Plugin, published on 4 Oct 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The Ultimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.6. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the admin_init or user_action_hook function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to modify a users membership status via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
Weakness: CWE-352
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-8520?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Ultimatemember Ultimate Member.
How do I fix CVE-2024-8520?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-8520 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2024-8520 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-8520 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in ultimatemember Ultimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership Plugin
- CVE-2020-36155 Privilege escalation in n/a
- CVE-2020-36157 Privilege escalation in n/a
- CVE-2020-36156 Privilege escalation in n/a
- CVE-2024-1071 SQL injection in Ultimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership Plugin
- CVE-2023-3460 Ultimate Member < 2.6.7 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation
Sources
Also known as GHSA-ffgp-p9ff-m7wf.